Clinton took in $30 million in February, her campaign announced today. Sanders' team said yesterday he raised $42.7 million in the same time period.

'Donald Trump is going to have plenty of money to compete in November,' Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement announcing his candidate's haul. 'Secretary Clinton’s reliance on maxed-out mega-donors isn’t sustainable and should scare Democrats who want to keep the White House in November.'

The Democratic front-runner's second-place finish in the money game this month was not unexpected. Her campaign had already admitted that Sanders and his team would outraise them, just like he did the month prior.

In January Sanders took in $21 million to Clinton's $15 million.

Bernie Sanders lost seven out of 11 of last night's contests to Hillary Clinton, but he's beating her on one front: fundraising

Clinton took in $30 million in February, her campaign announced today. Sanders' team said yesterday he raised $42.7 million in the same time period

Despite the Super Tuesday losses, aides at the Sanders campaign headquarters were telling a different story this morning. 'I think it's fair to say last night we had a fantastic night,' campaign manager Jeff Weaver said. Weaver's seen here at Sanders' rally last night in Vermont, on the right. On the left is senior strategist Tad Devine. Both briefed reporters this morning

Regardless, the Super Tuesday defeats were crushing for Sanders. Clinton has locked in 544 of the delegates need to win the Democratic Party's nomination to Sanders 349.

Over at the Sanders campaign headquarters, though, his top aides were telling a different story: 'I think it's fair to say last night we had a fantastic night,' campaign manager Jeff Weaver said.

The campaign targeted just five of the states on the calendar yesterday and it won '4.9,' he said, referring to the senator's one percent loss in Massachusetts and wins in Oklahoma, Colorado, Vermont and Minnesota.

'So we're going forward, and this is a campaign to win.'

On Saturday, Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska hold their contests. The following day Maine Democrats will conduct a caucus. Then, Tuesday, Michigan and Mississippi cast their ballots.

Sanders expects to win four of the six based on his performance so far - Kansas, Nebraska, Maine and Michigan.

He's visiting them all today and tomorrow, and he'll be back in Michigan on Sunday for the Democratic Party debate in Flint.

At stake over the next week are 300 delegates. To pull ahead of Clinton, he'd need to win all but 100 of them, roughly.

'We're behind,' Weaver admitted this morning, speaking about the delegate count generally, and Clinton 'has a substantial advantage. We believe that we can make that up.'

The campaign chief said 'as late as this morning,' senior staff was running the numbers.

They believe they can pick up many of the 247 delegates awarded late in the race by New York, where Sanders was born and Clinton claims as her adopted state, on April 19.

It's also relying on uber-liberal California to boost its delegate count. The West Coast state does not hold its contest until June 7 and is the second to last primary, but it controls 495 delegates. If Sanders is able to hold on until then, he could pull an upset over Clinton and clinch the nomination.

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'We'd have to win a lot of states beginning with this weekend,' Devine said of the possible path to victory.

Devine contended at the briefing that Super Tuesday was the 'single best day on the calendar' for Clinton, however.

She had 'real momentum' after Nevada and South Carolina, he said. 'We do not think the calendar ahead looks nearly as good as yesterday.'

'I believe there's going to be a lot of good days ahead,' he insisted.

And for all the talk of the super delegates Clinton has locked in - party leaders who can give their vote at the convention to whomever they want - Devine said, 'The truth is you will not win a nomination in the Democratic unless you consistently win throughout the calendar.'

'If Hillary Clinton does not consistently win in the weeks and months ahead,' he said, 'questions will arise around her candidacy.'

'We've got a long way to go,'he said. 'I think we have a very good plan. Our plan is to win, and win consistently between now and June.'

By that time, their financing operation 'which is unprecedented' and other factors working in their favor, such as Sanders' popularity against potential Republican nominees, 'will take hold on the delegates and influence them,' Devine said.

'I believe there's going to be a lot of good days ahead,' Devine said this morning. Sanders supporters are seen cheering on their candidate last night just outside his home town in Vermont

The Sanders campaign is banking on Donald Trump becoming the Republican nominee.

A CNN general election poll released yesterday showed Sanders beating Trump in November by 12 points. Clinton would also win against the billionaire, but the margin is a tighter eight points.

'I think Trump is going to run a vicious campaign. I think we can all recognize his tactics. They've succeeded thus far in the Republican process,' Devine said.

'I believe that Bernie Sanders will much be a stronger candidate against Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton.

In the campaign's most poignant criticism of the ex-secretary of state this morning, Devine directed reporters to Sanders' scores on 'critical attributes, honesty and integrity for example, caring about people and compassion for them.'

'I think it gives a huge advantage in dealing with the incoming against somebody like Trump, where integrity is going to be the central issue...against him in this election.'

Clinton remains under a cloud of scrutiny brought on by her revelation last year that she ran her government emails through a private server she kept at her home in New York.

'I believe Democratic Party voters are going to, in the course of the next few months, come to the conclusion that if they want to beat Trump, they're going to need Bernie to be the nominee,' he said.

Michigan alone has 130 pledged delegates to pass out. The Sanders campaign believes it has a strong chance of winning the 'critical show down state,' in Weaver's words, in spite of polling that puts Clinton ahead by double digits.

Weaver argued that trade deals supported by Clinton have 'gutted' the local economy and hurt middle class and black residents of the state.

His candidate, on the other hand, has been a 'consistent opponent' of those agreements, Weaver said.

Michigan is a state with a large African-American population, and Sanders has not performed well with that demographic in states that have already voted.

Last night Clinton won 80 percent of the black vote or more in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. In South Carolina she outperformed Barack Obama's 2008 score with black voters and set a new record for turnout among voters in the demographic.

'We stipulate that we have to do better with African-American voters,' Sanders chief strategist, Tad Devine, told reporters camped out in the campaign's Burlington, Vermont, office this morning. 'But we think that we can do a lot better.'

Devine said the 74-year-old lawmaker who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, 'has an incredible personal story' to tell about his civil rights activism in his youth, and as black voters 'get to know him better, we think we're gonna do better.'

Sanders also failed to win strong support among Hispanics last night in Texas, according to exit polling. His campaign pointed to its win in Colorado, though, which had no exit polling.

'I don't know how you're going to win Colorado' without doing well with Hispanics, Weaver said.

'If Hillary Clinton does not consistently win in the weeks and months ahead,' he said, 'questions will arise around her candidacy,' the Sanders campaign said today

Sanders' supporters were slightly less convinced after last night's beating that their candidate would prevail.

But they said they were proud of the campaign he's run and what it's done for the progressive movement.

'I feel like even if he loses the states, he's still changing the way that people think,' Emily Kluppa said as the results rolled in. 'And even if he doesn't win this election, and take it to the end, he's still changing the dialogue and making people think about the issues.'

Her husband, Mike, added, 'We just hope the movement continues.'

Obama's movement 'petered out but this can keep the momentum,' Emily said as her husband interjected, 'I'd like to think there's a lot more Bernies than Trumps in the world.'

'I think that Trump just managed to get a lot of media attention and make it appear like there are a vast majority of Americans who are racist.'

His wife said, 'But I think that he's the minority. He's just the loudest one, so it sounds like majority.'

As far as Sanders' prospects in the Democratic primary are concerned, Mike said, 'We're optimistic still...' as his wife chimed in, ..for the future, if not for right now, for the future.'

'No, we're optimistic for right now,' he told her. 'We are optimistic for right now, but if we're wrong, which never happens....'

Both said that if it comes down to it, they'll vote for Clinton in the general election though.

Mike was ready with a yes. Emily shrugged and said, 'I guess. Begrudgingly.'